by kids1stadvocac | Dec 16, 2025 | Federal
Hechinger Report Within the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division is a small office devoted to educational issues, including seclusion, as well as desegregation and racial harassment. The division intentionally chooses cases with potential for high impact and...
by kids1stadvocac | Dec 9, 2025 | State
KOLD.COM “It’s really important that some outside agency like OCR comes in — someone outside the school district can come in and see what’s going on,” said Dr. Diana Newmark, University of Arizona Education Advocacy Clinic Director. Then the Trump Administration...
by kids1stadvocac | Dec 9, 2025 | Federal
NPR Fifty years ago, just after Thanksgiving of 1975, President Gerald Ford signed the Education for All Handicapped Children Act, the landmark law that created special education as it exists today, and guaranteed all children with disabilities the right to a...
by kids1stadvocac | Dec 9, 2025 | Federal
NPR The Trump administration has fired, or tried to fire, many of the federal staff at the U.S. Department of Education who manage and enforce federal disability law, though Education Secretary Linda McMahon has said federal funding for special education is not at...
by kids1stadvocac | Dec 2, 2025 | Federal
POLITICO Advocates for children with disabilities — and even some Republican lawmakers — are warning that the federal government needs to preserve its special education programs as the Trump administration moves to dismantle the Education Department. Education...
